The application of redemption

And how much our reformed Writers abroad, living in continual wranglings and Disputes with the Adversaries of Grace, have omitted in a Practical and Experimental way, to lay open and anatomize the inwards of this great work, for the Comfort and settlement, of poor souls, many of themselves do greatly bewail: And to find them work, and divert them from this, it hath been the ⟨image 249⟩Devils great Policy (who is at the head of all those Controversies) as also ever since Pelagius time, to this very day) to make that dry and barren plot of Ground (namely the naked dispute of the freedom of mans will) to be the great seat of this War (as the Pope did the Conquest of the Holy Land, in the darker times, to find all Christian Princes work) and thither to draw all the forces and intentions of mens minds jejunely & in a great part Philosophically to debate what power mans will (for-sooth) hath in the Summity and Apex of Conversion to resist or to accept the Grace of God: and so whether Moral persuasions only be not Sufficient? or that Physical Pre-determinations be not also requisite to Conversion? whilst in the mean time, all those intimate actings of a soul in turning to God; The secret particular passages, both on Gods part, and on the souls part (which are many and various) by which the soul is won over unto God and Christ; those treaties the souls of ⟨image 249⟩men hold with God and Christ for justifying and Sanctifying Grace, and for union with him: these have been forgotten, or but overly and slightly touched upon, which if our reformed Divines would have made it their work distinctly to have insisted on, out of the scripture and their own experience: that Glory would have appeared therein, which would have put a period unto all those janglings about Free-Will.

And how much our reformed Writers abroad, living in continual wranglings and Disputes with the Adversaries of Grace, have omitted in a Practical and Experimental way, to lay open and anatomize the inwards of this great work, for the Comfort and settlement, of poor souls, many of themselves do greatly bewayl: And to find them work, and divert them from this, it hath been the ⟨image 249⟩Devils great Policy (who is at the head of all those Controversies) as also ever since Pelagius time, to this very day) to make that dry and barren plot of Ground (namely the naked dispute of the freedom of mans wil) to be the great seat of this War (as the Pope did the Conquest of the Holy Land, in the darker times, to find al Christian Princes work) and thither to draw al the forces and intentions of mens minds jejunely & in a great part Phylosophically to debate what power mans wil (for-sooth) hath in the Summity and Apex of Conversion to resist or to accept the Grace of God: and so whether Moral perswasions only be not Sufficient? or that Physical Pre-determinations be not also requisite to Conversion? whilest in the mean time, al those intimate actings of a soul in turning to God; The secret particular passages, both on Gods part, and on the souls part (which are many and various) by which the soul is won over unto God and Christ; those treaties the souls of